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The collective name for the islands of the central Pacific Ocean, including the Austral Islands, Cook Islands, Easter Island, HAWAII; NEW ZEALAND; Phoenix Islands, PITCAIRN ISLAND; SAMOA; TONGA; Tuamotu Archipelago, Wake Island, and Wallis and Futuna Islands. Polynesians are of the Caucasoid race, but many are of mixed origin. Polynesia is from the Greek poly, many + nesos, island, with reference to the many islands in the group. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p966 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p426)
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- Cook Islands
- Easter Island
- French Polynesia
- Niue
- Tahiti
- Tokelau
- Tokelau Islands
- Wake Island
- Wallis and Futuna Islands
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Indexed with the subheadings epidemiology, ethnology.
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a group of islands in the central Pacific
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68; EASTER ISLAND was see CHILE 1975-77
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- National Library of Medicine. Polynesia. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D011114. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D011114
- Polynesia. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polynesia
- Polynesia. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q35942